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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Patrick Welsh

(c. 1831 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 30, he enlisted and mustered on 24 September 1861 in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, PA as a Corporal in Company K, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant on 5 April 1864 and mustered out at the end of his term of enlistment on 21 October 1864.

After the War

He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in May 1879 and at the 1890 US Census of surviving veterans and widows, his widow Ellen was living in Schuylkill County, PA.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His wounding in Maryland from a casualty list provided by Colonel Cake and printed in the Pottsville Miner's Journal of 4 October 1862. Details from his pension card, online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1831

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31151]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 31152]

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